Cabinet.



Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

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A. PRIBBENOW.

CABINET. APPLICATION FILED JULY 25,1914.

1 Zberifrz'bbemaw,

Wilmeoou ALBERT PRIBBEN'OW, OF HAMPTON, IOWA.

CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28 1916.

Application filed July 25, 1914. Serial No. 853,040.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT PRIBBENOW, a

citiZen of the United States, residing at Hampton, in the county of Franklin and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cabinets, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

This invention is an improved cabinet for arrangement in an opening in a wall of a building and for receiving articles such as milk, groceries or the like, delivered by tradesmen, and enable access to be had thereto by a person in the building. 7

One object of my invention is to provide an improved cabinet of this kind which is adjustable and may be fitted in an opening in a wall of any width.

Another object is to provide improved means for locking the outer door of the cabinet and for utilizing the weight of the article in securing the door when in closed position.

The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of acabinet. Fig. 2 is a. side elevation of the same partly in section and with the doors open and showing the cabinet arranged in an opening in a wall. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of the same. Fig. 4 is a detail elevation of the outer door. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the bracket and locking bar.

For the purposes of this specification a wall is indicated at 1 provided with an opening 2. The body 3 of my improved cabinet, which is adapted to be placed in the opening in the wall comprises a pair of members 45 which are telescopically related as at 6 so that the body of the cabinet is longitudinally adjustable and may be accommodated to a wall of any width. Frames 7-8 are respectively secured on the outer and inner sides of the cabinet, and are adapted to bear against and be secured to the wall, around the sides of the opening in the wall and each of the said frames has a door opening.

The outer door 9 is connected at one side to one side of the frame 7 by hinges 10, and is provided at its free edge, on its outer side, with a spring projecting latch bolt 11 which is adapted to engage a keeper 12 secured on 'the corresponding side of the frame 7. The

spring projected latch bolt is arranged in a casing 13 and has a handle knob or button 14 by means of which it may be operated. In the corresponding side of the member 4 of the cabinet body'is a vertically arranged inwardly extending'keeper 15. On the inner side of the outer door is a locking bar 16 concealed between the outer panel 15 and the inner panel 16 and pivotally connected to the respective panels as at 17 and is provided at its free end with a bent arm 18 which has an upstanding shoulder '19 to pass under and engage the keeper 15 when said door is closed, said shoulder 19 having a vertical inner side 20 and a cam or inclined outer side or edge 21 so that when the door closes the cam serves to cause the latter to ride under and to engage the keeper 15. At the inner end of the locking bar is a receiving bracket 22 which is connected to an arm 23 that depends from the inner end of the locking bar. This receiving bracket 22 projects through the inner panel 16 and is disposed at right angles to the door and is movable in a plane at rightangles thereto.

' A tray 24 is arranged below the receiving bracket and is carried by the door 9. When the outer door 9 is open and the receiving bracket is empty the locking bar by its own gravity is arranged with its free end in lowered position and the receiving bracket is slightly raised. When a delivery man places a bottle of milk, a package of groceries or other like article on the receiving bracket, the outer door being open, the weight of the article causes the receiving bracket to descend and the free end of the locking bar to be raised so that when the outer door is then closed by the delivery man the locking bar is caused by the weight of the delivered article to automatically engage the keeper 15 and thereby lock the outer door closed and prevent the theft of the delivered article. The inner door 25 is hinged at one side as at 26 to the inner frame 8, and is provided at its free side with a spring projecting latch 27 which is substantially identical with the latch on the outer door and which coacts with a keeper 28 on the opposite side of the frame 8 to secure the inner door in closed position. It will be understood that when an article has been placed in the cabinet from the outside, a person in the house may readily reach the article to remove the same by first opening the inner door 25 so that the cabinet forms not only a safe place for the stowage of milk,

groceries or the like but also forms a convenient scuttle to enable articles to be received in a house from Without and Without the necessity of going through a door.

Having thus described my invention, I claim A cabinet of the class described for adjustable arrangement in an opening in Walls of various thickness, comprising a pair of telescopically arranged inner and outer members of substantially rectangular configuration in cross section and formed at their outer ends with integral frames, means passing through the frames forsecuring the members stationary to the Wall, a horizontally swinging closure hinged to the frame of the outer member, a concealed locking bar pivotally'mounted to the interior of the clo sure, a merchandise receiving member carried by the innermost end of the locking bar and projecting inwardly and at right angles to the plane of movement of the closure, a keeper, said locking bar having a dedoor and a second closure hingedly carried by the frame of the inner member for permitting access to the merchandise.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ALBERT PRIBBENOW,

'Witnesses:

R. R. STUART, R. T. WARNER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington. D. c." 

